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  • Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century

    Edición de Saul Dubow, Richard Drayton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealth, the anti-apartheid struggle, race and immigration, memory and commemoration, and banking. The volume focusses less on ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

    1700 to the Present

    de William Beinart, Saul Dubow ...
    South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • South Africa’s Struggle for Human Rights

    de Saul Dubow ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    The human rights movement in South Africa’s transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. It was a key aspect of the political transition, often referred to as a miracle, which brought majority rule and democracy to South Africa. The country’s new constitution, its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the moral authority of Nelson ... Leer más

    $16.19 USD

  • Our Changing World-View

    Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy

    de Jan Christian Smuts, John Patrick Dalton, Robert Broom, John Frederick Vicars Phillips, Ian D MacCrone, John Young Thomson Greig, Theodorus Johannes Haarhof, Cecil Sydney Richards, Sally Herbert Frankel, Reinhold Frederick Alfred Hoernlé ...
    Johannesburg was still a brash mining town, better known for the production of wealth than knowledge, and the University of the Witwatersrand a mere ten years old when, in 1932, these ten lectures were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society. They portrayed the ideas of the university’s leading academics of the day, and the programme of lectures reveals a studied ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II

    Colonial Knowledges

    Edición de Saul Dubow ...
    Series series The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires
    This volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges’. The use of the adjective 'colonial' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, ’knowledges’ indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, often competing, cognitive systems. George Balandier’s notion of the colonial situation is an ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa

    Edición de William Beinart, Saul Dubow ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in South African history will be indelible. this book is designed to introduce students to a range of interpretations of one of South Africa's central social characteristics: racial segregation. It: • brings together eleven articles which span the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Triumph of the Expert

    Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

    de Joseph Morgan Hodge ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • Colonialism

    A Moral Reckoning

    de Nigel Biggar ...
    The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West’s colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Rational Optimist

    How Prosperity Evolves

    de Matt Ridley ...
    “A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven PinkerIn a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2015

    de Valerie Knowles ...
    In this new and revised edition, Knowles explores new materials relating to multiculturalism and immigration.Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The British Empire

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ashley Jackson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD